John W. Parker
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Skipjack
Year: 1901
Builder:
Location: Fishing Creek
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| 1 | 8888.0064.0000.00 | documents | Biographical Background: Dr. Bodenstein, who died | Range, Cir 01/01/1700 - 01/01/1987 | Biographical Background: Dr. Bodenstein, who died in 1996, was an amateur historian who specialized in Chesapeake Bay steamboats, Eastern Shore railroads, and the general history of the Eastern Shore. He was a volunteer at the Historical Society of Talbot County. An amateur photographer, he contributed photographs and historical information to Elizabeth Hughes's Historic St. Michaels, An Architectural History (Historic St. Michaels-Bay Hundred, Inc.; 1996) which is dedicated to Dr. Bodenstein. He was also a contributor to the Maryland Historical Magazine (see Bodenstein, "St. Michaels, Maryland: An 18th Century Speculative Development", MHM, Vol. 80, No. 3, Fall 1985, pp. 228-239). The collection was donated by Dr. Bodenstein's wife, Otelia, a long-time volunteer at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.Scope and Content: This collection consists of index notes for various Talbot County newspapers covering the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection also contains a number of clippings from newspapers, copies of articles focusing on steamboats, and various other memorabilia. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 2 | 8888.0096.0000.00 | documents | Lumber Industry Documents:BackgroundThe mate | Lumber Industry Documents:BackgroundThe material in this collection was acquired by purchase from various sources. It consists of two receipts, a time-keeper's book, a book listing lumber sales and shipments, a ledger of 304 pages, and a sheet found in the time-keepers book listing expenses for trips.Scope and ContentThe two receipts are dated 28 September and 30 November 1829 and refer to the receipt on board the sloops Eagle and True Guide of stated quantities of corded oak wood. In both cases the oak wood is for Justes Lowery, apparently of Hall's Landing. The only information about the vessels and Lowery is that contained in the receipts themselves. The location of Hall's Landing is not known.The book listing lumber sales and shipments by K. C. Rice of Craddockville, VA, dates from August 1916 to April 1918, and describes the transactions in detail. Craddockville is located at the head of Craddock Creek, about four miles west northwest of Belle Haven, VA. Most of the lumber, which largely consisted of 35- to 75-foot pilings or "sticks", was shipped by rail, although some was rafted. There are frequent references to Pennsylvania Railroad "car" numbers. Shipments were mostly from such Eastern Shore of Virginia points as Birds Nest Station, Nassawadox Station, Eastville Station, and Machipongo Station. Destinations included Newark and Harrison, NJ, Boston, MA, Buffalo, NY, and Mahanoy City, PA. Some of the "sticks" were sold under contract to the U. S. Government.The time-keeper's book covers the period from April 1910 through October 1910 and November 1912. It lists K. C. and John W. Rice, as well as a number of other employees. It gives the number of days worked per month. Each month is divided into two parts. Although the printed format contains a column for pay "rate per day", no rates are entered, nor is there an entry in the column for total amounts paid. The name K. C. Rice has been entered on the flyleaf at the back of the book.The ledger, which apparently is from the L. J. Houston & Co. of Stockton, MD, covers the period from January 1902 through December 1907. Stockton lies about eleven miles south of Snow Hill, MD, and about three miles north of the Virginia border. The ledger reflects monetary entries for a number of individuals and organizations whose names are shown in an alphabetical index at the front of the volume. In addition, sections of the ledger at pp. 193-209 and 302-304 list weekly rental income for 1909-1910 and1904-1906 respectively.One BoxFolder 1- Two receipts: (1) dated 28 Sept 1829 for eighteen and one half cords of oak wood received on board the sloop True Guide at Hall's Landing by W. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 3 | 8888.0052.0000.00 | documents | CAPTAIN LEONARD S. TAWES MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION | CAPTAIN LEONARD S. TAWES - MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Biographical Background<CR> Captain Leonard S. Tawes was born in Accomack County, Virginia, on October 2, 1853. He died in Crisfield, Maryland, on December 6, 1932. He went to sea at an early age, worked his way up to master of sailing vessels, and continued actively to captain sailing vessels until 1922 when he retired from the sea to devote himself to oyster farming in the area around Crisfield. In his retirement, using his logs and other records, Tawes composed a series of journals covering his life and recounting his maritime experiences in detail. The journals, edited by Robert H. Burgess, called Coasting Captain, were published as a book by The Mariners Museum in 1967. This volume is an excellent companion to the manuscript collection and permits clarification of many of the entries found in the manuscripts themselves. In 1884 Captain Tawes took command of, and part ownership in the three-masted, 138-foot schooner City of Baltimore. The 356-gross ton schooner was built by Goss, Sawyer & Packard of Bath, Maine, and was launched on February 2, 1884. Tawes captained the City of Baltimore until 1904 when she was sold in Tampa, Florida (Coasting Captain, 146, 445-6). Most of the material in the manuscript collection relates to the period during which Tawes sailed the City of Baltimore.Scope and Content The collection consists of seven bound booklets and ledgers, and one folder containing various documents which were found in the ledgers when they were accessioned. Most of the material is financial and other operating records from the schooner City of Baltimore. Subject: Captain Leonard S Tawes | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 4 | 8888.0046.0000.00 | documents | Cambridge, Maryland Custom Bureau Enrollment and L | Exact 02/01/1988 - | Cambridge, Maryland Custom Bureau Enrollment and License Certificates (1923 - 1958)The collection is comprised of 377 vessel enrollment records for Cambridge, Maryland dating between 1923 and 1958.BackgroundAlthough it is unclear who saved the Cambridge enrollment records, they were donated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by Mr. Russ Rippell in 1993.SubjectsChesapeake Bay vessels, 1920s-1950s; Maryland Custom Bureau Records; Vessel Enrollment Records; Cambridge, MD--History; Maryland--HistoryCambridge, Maryland Enrollment Records:Please see attached spreadsheet for a specific listing by Doc. #. The enrollment records were arranged chronologically | No image URL. | View | |||
| 5 | 8888.0016.0000.00 | documents | Albert E. Brown and Bro Papers<CR><CR>The collection i | Brown, Albert __Creator | Exact 02/01/1988 - | Albert E. Brown and Bro Papers<CR><CR>The collection is comprised of some of the correspondence and business papers concerning the Brown's Sail Loft in Winona, Maryland. Included are many sail plans for work and recreational boats. These papers were retrieved by museum staff from the derelict sail loft with the permission of the owner. Many are damaged or, deteriorated.Biographical BackgroundAlbert E. Brown and Bro/ sail.1oft~:~was located at Wenona, on the southern tip of the island. The Loft was founded in 1870 by Capt. John Stubbs. In 1890 he was bought out by Henry Brown, born in England, and who served as a seaman in the Royal Navy. He learned the art of sailmaking when he came to the United States during the Civil War and joined the United States Navy.Henry constructed the present building. When he retired in 1919 his son Albert took over the sail loft. Albert's son Henry, in turn, started at the loft when he was 12 years old and took over the business in 1956. Henry G. Brown retired about 1980 and the building has stood empty ever since. In 1986 the old sail loft changed hands.In its heyday, the business was one-of the region's leading sailmakers and had a reputation for old-fashioned, quality workmanship. Orders for sails came from all across the country and from overseas.Scope and ContentThis material represents those papers that were salvagable and that remained in the sail loft after the business had closed. They give considerable insight into the operation of one of the country's most well-known sailmakers.The majority of the papers are correspondence written to the sail loft concerning orders for sails, frequently accompanied by a sail plan and an estimate. Of value are a number of sail plans for the oyster dredging fleet, that the loft kept on file for repeat orders, and letters concerning well-known Bay yachts. Many of these boats have long since disappeared. Sail Loft Amps (1923 - 1974)Brown Papers, p 2An index of boats is available.Correspondence was filed under boat name where it was known, and by correspondent's last name if-no specific boat was mentioned (except for one" design boats which are filed under class name).Other papers include"account books and miscellaneous business papers which provide an overview of 1"the finances of a traditional sailmaking business.Sub'ectsSailmaking Subject: Albert E. Brown and Bro. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 6 | 8888.0054.0000.00 | documents | THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas | Exact 01/01/1981 - 12/31/1993 | THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas C.Gillmer was born in 1911 at Warren, Ohio. He became interested in ships at an early age, entering the U.S. Naval Academy and graduating in 1935. During the late 1930s he served aboard light cruisers in the Pacific and Mediterranean. During World War II he served as an instructor in naval construction, damage control, and marine engineering at the Naval Academy, eventually becoming chairman of the naval engineering department. In 1952 Gillmer wrote Naval Construction a Ship Stability, a basic text still in use in the naval architecture program at the Academy. He retired from active teaching at the Academy in 1967 and began to devote full time to the design of yachts and ship replicas. His first successful yacht design was the 1946 Blue Moon. Subsequent designs were the Southern Cross and Seawind series. He designed Pride of Baltimore 3,(1976-77), the pungy Lady Maryland (1979), and Pride 2L Baltimore 11. (1988). Most recently Gillmer prepared a study of the USS Constitution for her overhaul by the navy. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.See also Oral History tape No. 93 with transcript and list of books and articles.The manuscript collection consists of six papers:1. "Signposts Towards the Origin of Ship Design," prepared for the 5th Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, 1 October 1981.2. "Evolving Ship Design Technology As Revealed in Wrecks of Post Medieval Ships." 3rd International Symposium of Boat and Ship Archeology, Stockholm, 1982.3. "Authentic Replica Ships: Theory and Practice." International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Delphi, Greece, August 1987.4. "The Importance of Skeleton First Ship Construction to the Development of Rational Ship Design." International Symposium on Ship and Boat Archeology, Amsterdam 1988.5. "The Second Pride of Baltimore, Her Design and Construction." 9th Sailing Yacht Symposium, Annapolis 1989.6. "USS Constitution: An Assessment for Her Future." Naval History Symposium, Annapolis 1993. Subject: Thomas C Gillmer | No image URL. | View | |||
| 7 | 8888.0087.0000.00 | documents | H. M. Rowe & Co., Oyster Packers:BackgroundI | Range, Cir 03/01/1882 - 07/31/1887 | H. M. Rowe & Co., Oyster Packers:BackgroundIn 2001 the museum purchased four large, leatherbound books consisting of volumes labeled "Ledger", "Journal", "Cash", and "H. M. Rowe & Co." The latter contained no readable entries. The Journal contained entries from 1 March 1882 through 31 August 1885; Cash had entries from 1 September 1885 through 16 July 1887; and the Ledger covered the period from 1884 through July 1887.Wood's Baltimore City Directory, 1874 (Baltimore: John W. Woods), at p. 492, lists "Rowe, H. M. & Co (H. M. & W. H. Rowe) oyster packers, 68 Boston". Also, H. M. Rowe is listed at "393 e Pratt", and Wm. H. Rowe is listed at "395 e Pratt". Finally, James B. Rowe, bookkeeper, is listed at "393 e Pratt". From this it is evident that the Rowe company was in the oyster packing business as early as 1874. Information contained in the three volumes suggests that the company ended its business in July 1887. Polk's Baltimore City Directory, 1902, has no listing for the company.In 1882 Joseph W. Brooks (1832-1915) built a schooner named H. M Rowe at his yard in Dorchester County, MD. (See Pete Lesher, "The Industrious Shipbuilder: Joseph W. Brooks" (The Weather Gauge, v. 36, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 3-11 and 33). A photo at p. 7 shows the Rowe with her homeport as Deals Island. The vessel's first owner was Caleb J. Moore whose connection with the Rowes is not known. As shown below, however, the Rowe company purchased oysters from the vessel over several years.Scope and ContentThe Journal and Cash volumes reflect receipts and disbursements over a five-year period. Many of the disbursements were small amounts to the three Rowes; many others were to named recipients or for such expenses as stamps, labels, etc.The Journal (pp. 1-239) is of interest because it shows on a day-by-day basis all receipts and disbursements from 1 March 1882 through 31 August 1885. Disbursements cover everything from postage stamps, newspaper purchases (New York Herald, Baltimore American), payments to the Rowes and their employees, to payments for oysters delivered by ships. Among many vessels to which payments were made were the sloop Morning Light, and schooners Sea Belle, Sharps Island, Nautilus, Exchange, H. P. Barnes, Maid of Erin, Ann Virginia, Two Brothers, and Lewis Taulane. Of special are payments to the schooner H. M Rowe. These began on 6 October 1882 with the entry (p. 45) showing a payment of $50.00, and the entry "name & colors". Subsequent entries show payments to the vessel throughout the years 1882 until 19 January 1885. Most payments were for relatively large amounts apparently for cargos of oysters: examples are payments of $315.00 on 8 December 1882 (p. 61), $511.56 on 27 December 1882, and $455.05 on 11 January 1883.However, the key portion of the collection is contained in the Ledger. Between pages 70 and 261 the entries show shipments of oysters to numerous buyers in a variety of states and Ontario, Canada. Each entry shows the date of shipment, the quantity shipped (barrels, half-barrels, kegs, tubs), the grade of the shipment(standards, selects), the price of the shipment, and the payment dates and amounts, almost always in cash. The Ledger also shows that each of the Rowes owned one-third of the value of the assets of the company (pp. 4-5), but that H.M. Rowe held the most capital (pp. 30-43). Although the Rowes were all partners in the firm, we do not know what their relationship was to each other.A second important part of the Ledger reflects payments for merchandise to numerous individuals and companies (pp. 301-329).In short, although this company was only one of many oyster packers and shippers in Baltimore during the period covered by these volumes, clearly its business was widespread and apparently lucrative: when the company apparently wound up its business on 16 July 1887, the total capital split among the Rowes was about $21,665, a fair amount for the time. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 8 | 8888.0090.0000.00 | documents | Penso Papers | This collection begins on CSC 15B1 and continues on 15B2, 15B3, and 15B4. One oversize folder is located in RR FF 3; the contents have 2 copies and a negative of sketch of two people in the Racing dinghy Penguin. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 9 | 8888.0102.0000.00 | papers | Papers of John Frazer, Jr. | Background<CR>The material in this collection was acquired in a donation from Mr. John Frazer Jr. It consists of a petition, May 1803, Elizabeth Smith to Talbot County, to keep the Oxford Ferry; letter dated June 7, 1822 from S. Harrison to Wm. W. Moore re: selling a 39 foot scow; materials relating to Maryland Nautical Academy; Correspondence to O. Tilghman relating to establishment of a steamboat line, 1903; shipping receipts to O. Tilghman; and shipping receipts to Dr. S. A. Harrison.Scope and ContentThe items in this collection are contained in one manuscript box with 8 file folders, and one oversized folder. The box is in Misc. Manuscripts and the large folder (#9) is in CSA 12 FF20. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 10 | 0000.0901.1348.00 | photographs | SCHOONER "JOHN W MILLER" UNDER CONSTRUCTION.; From | McClean, Parker __Photographer | SCHOONER "JOHN W MILLER" UNDER CONSTRUCTION.; From old Remarks field: SCHOONER SECTION. Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SCHOONERS; SHIPBUILDING; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | |||
| 11 | 1977.0019.0001.00 | ships plans | Sailmaker Marshall and Godfry Sail Plans | Marshall and Godfry, __Designer | Pratt St - Baltimore - MD | Compilation of Sailmaker Marshall and Godfry Sail Plans for various vessels. Marshall and Godfry were from Pratt St. Baltimore MD. Received by donor in 1936. Compilation is comprised of a canvas cover (stored in a separate folder) and 11 sheets. Compilation includes sail plans for the Schooner Oakland, Sloop Albatros, Three Masted Schooner Ella Barnes, Two Masted Schooner King George, Schooner Salisbury, Pungy Exchange, Topsail Schooner Ellie, Schooner Anna Belle, Schooner Queen Anne, Schooner Hester Ann, Schooner Commerce, Two Masted Schooner Pensacola, Two Masted Schooner Sea Bird, Two Masted Schooner Caledonia, Schooner Golden Rule, Schooner American Coaster, Schooner Edward Bennet, Schooner Florence Lee, Pungy William H. Vickery, Schooner Three Brothers, Pungy Mary Anna, Schooner Onward, Schooner Three Sisters, Yacht Mischief, Sloop Treasure, Schooner Anna G. Gale, Schooner Chesterfield. See 1977.0019.0002.00 for four additional sail plans belonging to this compilation. Material is canvas cover and paper. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 12 | 1977.0019.0002.00 | ships plans | Sailmaker Marshall and Godfry Sail Plans | Marshall and Godfry, __Designer | Pratt St - Baltimore - MD | Compilation of Sailmaker Marshall and Godfry Sail Plans for various vessels. Marshall and Godfry were from Pratt St. Baltimore MD. Received by donor in 1936. Compilation has four sheets and includes sail plans for the Sloop Barbarana, Sloop Eva, Schooner Harry Moore, Sloop Kent Island, Two Masted Schooner North Carolina, Sloop Alexander McCullough, Schooner Thomas B Taylor, Schooner Bohemia, Schooner Alice, and Schooner Willie J. Gibson. See 1977.0019.0001.00 for canvas cover and remaining sail plans. Material is paper. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 13 | 1975.0039.0005.00 | skiffs (model) | FULL MODEL OF CHINCOTEAGUE, VA. SAILING SKIFF. TWO | Parker, John W __Creator | FULL MODEL OF CHINCOTEAGUE, VA. SAILING SKIFF. TWO-MASTED, V-BOTTOM, SKIFF FOR OYSTER FISHERY. REPLACED ROUND-BOTTOM SAILING SKIFF W/ SAME RIG C. 1906. Also called seaside bateau MODEL BUILT BY JOHN W. PARKER. 6. SCALE 3/4"=1'. Materials: WOOD Colors: RED,WHITE,GRAY Negative #: N2007 R3 | No image URL. | View | |||
| 14 | 2020.0013.0001 | skiffs, crabbing | Crab Skiff | Parks, Charles H. | circa 1928 | Fishing Creek - MD | Crab skiff built by Charles H. Parks and used to harvest peeler crabs out of Hooper Island. Charles H. Parks opperated a seafood packing house till the 1960s. |  | View | |
| 15 | 1977.0023.0001.00 | skipjack (model) | Model skipjack CARRIE PRICE, w. case. 3/8" = 1'. | Model skipjack CARRIE PRICE, w. case. 3/8" = 1'. Boat was built in 1897 at Holland Island, Md. by James Henry Price for his son Adam P. Price and named for his daughter-in-law. HAMS #5-5. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 16 | 2002.0018.0001.00 | watercolor paintings | Ship Katherine Jackson of Baltimore | Thomas, M A __Artist | 1844 | Watercolor portrait of ship Katherine Jackson of Baltimore, signed by M.A.Thomas dated 1844 LR. Reverse painted on glass "Catharine Jackson. Baltimore, John Myers, Commander, 1843." Ship was built in 1833. Beginning in 1842, it was owned and commanded by John Myers of Baltimore, whose name appears in gold, reverse painted on the border of the glass in which the portrait is framed. <br /><br />The Katherine Jackson has been discoverd as operating as a slave ship. From a CBMM feature about the hidden history of the ship, "In 2015, the Georgetown University 'Working Group on Slavery, Memory, & Reconciliation' brought the ship’s disreputable activity during that interim period to light—it had been contracted to carry 272 enslaved people sold south by the leadership of the educational institution. The manifest listing enslaved persons aged two months to 70 years was matter-of-factly stated as 'Examined and found corrected' on December 6, 1838, in New Orleans."<br />Watercolor heightened with white on paper. See file for ship details. Condition: good, some fading. |  | View |
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